Word: cuttingly
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...fear of losing their jobs, the College administration is currently considering two proposals, both of which would scale back the position. One option is to consolidate the responsibilities of the 12 resident dean assistants, requiring one assistant to manage two or three Houses. The other alternative would be to cut the position back by two months of the calendar year, making it a 10-month job. Though resident deans said College administrators have been considering these proposed changes since February, strong opposition from students and House administrators to amending the position mounted this week, amid Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...HUDS blog, an anonymous commenter made an interesting point about the logic behind the hot breakfast cut...
Rumors abound that the administration is planning to cut dining hall workers as a result of cutting breakfast. One cook in Adams has even pinpointed a target number: eliminating two dining hall workers from every House, either through early retirement or layoffs. How does he know this secret information? A student forwarded this email over to Adams Schmooze...
...were told today that we would suffer layoffs in september. you may have heard that yesterday evening the university notified the students on their web site that starting in september no more hot breakfast. the harvard corporation using this attack on the students intended to cut 2 workers from every hall. we need to meet to go over what we can do . we are trying to reserve a room at pbh in the yard with the help of the students this thrusday for shop stewards and activists. we then can plan a meeting with the members early next week...
...editors: Harvard’s support for Barack Obama during his presidential campaign was enthusiastic and near-unanimous. When he won, the university was jubilant. His ideals of shared sacrifice and spreading the wealth, however, appear to have made few inroads on campus (“HLS Will Cut Staff To Trim Budget,” News, May 6). While faculty and top administrators, most of who earn six figures, face the annoyance of not receiving pay raises, staff and service workers are threatened with losing their jobs altogether. In this economy, it is unlikely they can find new ones...